Description
Book SynopsisCheryl Regehr explores the intersection between workplace stress, trauma exposure, and professional decision-making in social workers. She weaves together practice experience, research on the impact of stress and trauma on performance in other high-risk professions, and the empirical study of competence and decision-making in social work practice.
Trade ReviewRegehr is masterful in her ability to synthesize research knowledge and scholarship from social work and related fields and bring the resulting synthesis to the discussion of this complex topic. She is exceptionally well informed about the relevant fields, particularly stress and trauma, and also draws on a range of social science and health disciplines, including recent work on neuroscience. The resulting synthesis is creative, original, and rigorous. -- Imogen Taylor, University of Sussex
Regehr provides a literate, timely analysis of how stress and trauma affect decision-making in social workers. Using in part her own substantial research program on social workers' risk assessment and decision-making activities, Regehr analyzes social workers' experience of stress and trauma in their work, as well as approaches to mitigation of stress and trauma. With its extensive review of post-traumatic stress and acute stress disorder literature, the book could be readily used by teachers, scholars, and practitioners in social work and related fields. -- John H. Harvey, Editor,
Journal of Loss and Trauma, and Emeritus Professor of Psychology, University of Iowa
Drawing on her wide experience, Regehr teases out how stress and trauma affect social workers and their work in this well-written and practice-relevant book. Timely in this era of doubted experts, this book will equip social workers, their managers, their supervisors, and educators with knowledge and reflective commentary about the impact of stress and trauma and what can be done to maintain good decision-making and risk taking. -- Jill Manthorpe, King's College London, UK
Stress, Trauma, and Decision-Making in Social Work, written by a renowned researcher-practitioner with decades of experience in the area of occupational and traumatic stress, offers its readers an innovative, trauma-informed decision-making model
for social workers in high-risk situations and those working with traumatized populations. -- Carol Tosone, New York University Silver School of Social Work, and editor-in-chief,
Clinical Social Work JournalThis book is quite useful for social workers at large, and it covers the most important aspects in the daily life of social workers. * Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
1. Introduction
2. Stress and Trauma in Social Work
3. Factors Contributing to Trauma Response
4. Factors Contributing to Stress Response
5. Competence and Expertise
6. Decision-Making
7. Stress, Trauma, and Decision-Making
8. Mitigating the Effects of Stress and Trauma on Decision- Making
9. Improving Decision-Making in Situations of Uncertainty
References
Index
